Welcome to the O|Zone Public Services Authority
O|Zone™ Public Spaces Authority ensures that every O|Zone site delivers more than just infrastructure—it delivers places where community life can thrive.
By managing the shared spaces that connect pads, businesses, and public uses, this Authority preserves the balance between private enterprise and public access.
Its work supports regulatory compliance, enhances quality of life, and helps local governments unlock tax-exempt funding to build environments that are open, walkable, and ready for growth.
Authority Purpose & Scope
O|Zone Public Spaces Authority is a county-established governmental infrastructure authority designed to facilitate streets, transportation, drainage, covered parking and public spaces.
Its core mission is to ensure that each O|Zone site and pad has proper surface treatment, including covered parking and landscaping.across O|Zone non-contiguous pads and sites throughout the county. These sites may include lakes and other water features, outdoor recreational areas, sidewalks, outdoor seating, outdoor restroom facilities and assembly areas.
O|Zone Public Spaces Authority is an essential component of the site | pad framework. Each site comprises one or more pads, where the geographic area of the pad may be allocated for designated private use. Surrounding public infrastructure—such as parking, sidewalks, landscaping, and open spaces—is coordinated by the Authority to ensure shared access and compliance. This structure supports a private use percentage below 10%, preserving eligibility for tax-exempt bond financing under federal private activity rules.
The Authority does not install or operate public spaces infrastructure directly. Instead, it utilizes a Master Concessionaire–Sub-Concessionaire model:
A Master Concessionaire administers the overall infrastructure program, including coordinating implementation standards and oversight frameworks.
Sub-Concessionaires, including recognized private-sector infrastructure partners, are contracted to design, build, install, and maintain public spaces infrastructure in accordance with county mandates.
Crucially, the Authority fosters unique pads and pods in Opportunity Sites throughout the county. These are privately developed, operating under the Opportunity Five Roles framework (Land, Facility, Equipment, Inventory, and Operator).
These private spaces infrastructure assets may be privately owned and operated, often funded through Opportunity structures, yet digitally integrated into the county’s AI-governed, digital twin operated mesh. As such, each Pod, site, or Opportunity Zone becomes a node in a broader countywide operational grid.
Distributed Port Model for Public Spaces Infrastructure
O|Zone Public Spaces Authority is architected as a Distributed Port Model, in which public spaces are part of a federated constellation of Sites and Pads distributed throughout the county. This reflects the reality of O|Zone’s land use structure: non-contiguous sites, often activated one at a time, each with unique needs, partners, and innovation opportunities.
Each of these nodes may contain infrastructure directly funded or governed by the Authority, or privately developed through Sub-Concessionaires.
The Authority maintains oversight and orchestration, using a Master Concessionaire governance framework, but does not rely on a single utility-scale deployment. Instead, it enables modular public spaces activation in multiple geographies simultaneously.
A key element of this distributed system is the integration with the O|Zone Government Authority’s Digital Land Library, which maps all parcels, pads, and sites in the county.
To support this model, O|Zone Public Spaces Authority oversees development of a Countywide Public Spaces Infrastructure subsection of the Digital Land Library. This AI-enabled, continually updated system:
Maps every public spaces infrastructure in the county,
Assesses age, vulnerabilities, capacity, redundancy, and interdependencies,
Identifies potential environmental hazards,
Detects and visualizes potential EMP and cyberattack risks, and
Offers interconnection planning between O|Zone sites and non-O|Zone infrastructure.
This system is not limited to new developments. It is purpose-built to bring legacy infrastructure into the planning view, enabling the Authority and its partners to mitigate risks and proactively respond to emergencies.
Innovation Zones and the O|Zone Innovation Hub Program
Within this distributed network, certain areas may be designated as Innovation Zones. These are strategic locations with enhanced public spaces projects.
To support these unique public spaces projects, the O|Zone Innovation Hub Program is activated. This program:
Welcomes regional, national, and international institutional investors, along with high-net-worth participants, to co-invest in Innovation Zones,
Utilizes international funding instruments and digital assets as part of the investment stack,
Offers a platform for research, development, and pilot deployment of advanced technologies,
Anchors cross-border innovation corridors using the Digital Medallion ecosystem and international Opportunity alignment.
Each Innovation Zone may feature one or more Innovation Hubs focused on public spaces.
Innovation Hubs can interoperate with the Distributed Port Model—serving as both intensive nodes and testbeds—and link back to the broader water and waste library for real-time visibility and adaptive load management.
Digital Tariffs, Public Revenues, and Strategic Capitalization
O|Zone Public Spaces Authority operates within a dual-funding framework that integrates digital tariff instruments and capital funding strategies to ensure long-term fiscal sustainability and infrastructure development across the county. At its core, this structure combines ongoing public-private revenue participation with tax-exempt financing tools calibrated for local community banks and aligned with evolving federal banking policy.
Digital Tariff Architecture (Medallion-Based System)
Tariff structures in the O|Zone framework are implemented through Digital Medallions—programmable digital instruments that authorize specific services, uses, or revenue activities within geographically defined zones. These medallions carry attributes such as:
Functional Rights: Medallions authorize the use of public spaces infrastructure or service platforms,
Location Binding: Each medallion is tied to a specific site, pad, pod, innovation zone, or other defined opportunity footprint.
Capital Recovery Protocols: The medallion carries with it tariff rights which help recoup capital investment by private parties—facilitating amortization over time.
Public Sector Revenue Participation: A portion of revenue generated under each Digital Medallion accrues to the issuing Government Authority, creating a built-in public funding mechanism without taxation.
Integration with Opportunity-Based Infrastructure: The medallions are anchored in the Opportunity Framework’s Five Role structure, capturing revenue from land, infrastructure, equipment, inventory, and operator-based activities.
This model is inspired by the historic taxi medallion structure, where a right to operate is both revenue-generating and tradable. In the O|Zone context, the medallion’s programmability ensures compliance, tariff enforcement, and traceability through Calypso Decisioning machine learning technologies | digital intelligence and CER-based (Controllable Electronic Record) systems.
Integration with the Digital Tariff Authority
All medallion-based tariff rights are integrated through the county-level O|Zone Digital Tariff Authority, which governs issuance, compliance, revocation, and pricing standards. This ensures uniform governance and dispute resolution across multiple pods and operators, while allowing flexibility in zone-specific innovation clusters.
The Digital Tariff Authority operates as a distinct Government Authority within the O|Zone™ Initiative’s multi-authority framework and is authorized to cooperate across counties via Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreements, helping harmonize tariff logic across PAOZs (Port Authority Opportunity Zones).
Strategic Capitalization: Bank-Qualified Bonds and NodeBridge Instruments
Capital formation for the O|Zone Public Spaces Authority occurs through both traditional municipal finance and next-generation asset-linked programs.
Bank-Qualified Municipal Bonds
The Authority is empowered to issue up to $10 million per year in bank-qualified tax-exempt bonds, a critical threshold under U.S. tax law. These bonds offer:
80% Federal Tax Exclusion for S-Corp Banks: Community banks structured as S-corporations may exclude 80% of the bond’s interest income from taxable income—an incentive which enhances demand for these securities and ties infrastructure financing to local capital.
Access to Tax-Exempt Capital: Counties can deploy these funds toward infrastructure such as public spaces infrastructure, without relying on general tax revenue.
Targeted Impact: Bank-qualified bonds are particularly suitable for “pad-level” investments and distributed grid support systems that reinforce self-sufficient nodes and innovation sites.
NodeBridge Long-Term Instruments
Where deeper capital is required, the NodeBridge™ Ecosystem provides a strategic alternative. Key components include:
Directed Portfolio Facilities (DPFs): Purpose-built structures that allow institutional investors and foreign capital to enter long-term, infrastructure-tied portfolios through updated Volcker Rule exemptions.
FlexGIA™ and ParPlus Instruments: Designed to support off–balance sheet capitalization of infrastructure, reducing cost of capital and enhancing yield profile for banks, while also enabling private investors to participate in county-linked infrastructure development.
Custodial Structures and Sub-Accounts: These accounts may be established at local Community Banks and held through the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) system, enabling the banks to serve as bond indenture custodians, depository institutions, fiscal agents, and bond registrars for O|Zone Public Spaces Authority financings. This structure re-establishes the historical role of community banks as long-term service providers to local government entities. In doing so, it generates recurring service revenue streams and contributes to Tier 1 capital accumulation, reinforcing the financial strength and civic alignment of these institutions.
Holistic System Integration
Together, Digital Medallions and Strategic Capitalization create a non-tax-based revenue flywheel that benefits counties, private operators, and community banks:
County receives tariff-based revenues from each Digital Medallion.
Operators recover capital via amortized, tariff-structured income.
Banks benefit from tax-advantaged holdings and service fee income on structured accounts.
Infrastructure is deployed and modernized without depleting county general revenue funds.
This architecture is intentionally designed to de-risk infrastructure development, democratize access to public spaces and advanced innovations, and generate persistent local economic returns.
Sustaining Our Communities
O|Zone Public Spaces Authority
Designing the Public Realm Within Every Site | Pad Framework
O|Zone Public Spaces Authority plays a critical role in shaping the physical and civic environment of every O|Zone Opportunity Site. Within the site | pad architecture, each pad serves as a footprint for private enterprise or public function, while the surrounding areas—including sidewalks, parking, landscaping, and community-accessible open spaces—are designed and managed under the direction of this Authority.
This configuration allows for strategic delineation between “private use” and “public space”, which is essential for maintaining compliance with federal tax-exempt bond regulations—specifically the private activity limitations. By ensuring that private use is confined to less than 10% of the total project area, the Public Spaces Authority enables the deployment of municipal bond funding without triggering private activity classification thresholds.
Key functions of the O|Zone Public Spaces Authority include:
Establishing and preserving shared-use areas that serve as buffers and connective tissue across multiple pads within a site;
Enforcing design protocols that promote ADA accessibility, stormwater management, and low-maintenance landscaping;
Coordinating the placement of art installations, civic gathering nodes, and sensor-enabled walkways that link into the broader digital mesh;
Administering the land use certifications that support the financing structure, ensuring the site’s conformance with IRS guidelines for tax-exempt status.
These spaces are not merely aesthetic—they serve as regulatory, functional, and community enablers, reinforcing the legal, environmental, and operational integrity of each O|Zone Site.
The Public Spaces Authority ensures that the public realm within each site is not an afterthought, but a foundational element. These are the spaces where daily life happens—where a family parks to visit a ScanPort, a child plays beside a Community Pad, or a resident joins a weekend market on walkable, shaded paths.
A Digital Twin of the O|Zone Public Spaces Authority connects to the Digital Tariff Authority, enabling smart infrastructure planning for roads, public transit, site access, and delivery networks. Tariffs from opportunity-based activity feed into local funding pools, guided by AI-driven allocation models. Linked DPF infrastructure at community banks helps ensure tax-exempt bond flows and tariff payments are tracked and transparently distributed—right down to the crosswalk, driveway, or last-mile connector.
From sidewalks to shade trees, parking areas to gathering spaces, O|Zone Public Spaces Authority turns each site into a civic asset—not just a project parcel.
By coordinating shared-use design and preserving less than 10% private use within these spaces, the Authority enables counties to access powerful tax-exempt financing while ensuring long-term public benefit. It’s where compliance meets community—and where Opportunity becomes visible, livable, and walkable.
Additional appendices and implementation guides available upon request